EU CRA (Cyber Resilience Act)

Posted Jan 15, 2026 12:08 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: EU CRA (Cyber Resilience Act) by kleptog
Parent article: Kroah-Hartman: Linux kernel security work

And this is why gutting the House of Lords is such a disaster. You had plenty of people who would go in to the House to debate bills, and they would take the effort to read them, and because they had ended up in the Lords by accident they would probably have had a lot of relevant experience.

The Commons precisely hated the Lords because so much legislation got voted down with "this isn't going to work", while the Commoners, with an eye on getting re-elected, just wanted it passed whether it made sense or not.

Cheers,
Wol

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EU CRA (Cyber Resilience Act)

Posted Jan 15, 2026 15:32 UTC (Thu) by taladar (subscriber, #68407) [Link] (1 responses)

Maybe we need the equivalent of a linter for legislation, some purely rule-based rejection mechanism that is non-political precisely because it just applies to purely factual objections and those objects have to be validated for every bill?

EU CRA (Cyber Resilience Act)

Posted Jan 15, 2026 15:45 UTC (Thu) by daroc (editor, #160859) [Link]

There are a handful of interesting projects along those lines, actually. The most complete and useful is probably Catala: https://github.com/CatalaLang/catala